(n.) Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
(n.) A line of ancestory; a race or house.
(a.) Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(2) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
(3) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
(4) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(5) 5) Super-infection with HDV of an HBsAg-positive household contact was significantly predicted by female sex of the index case and by anti-HDV positivity.
(6) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(7) Twenty-eight out of 49 countries in [sub-Saharan] Africa have not had a household survey since 2006 and yet in Africa since 2005 the population has grown by 30%,” she said.
(8) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(9) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(10) Energy UK said the help offered by its members to pensioners and low-income households was the equivalent of giving shoppers £135 per year.
(11) "We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country, anywhere in the world.
(12) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(13) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(14) Subtyping performed on 10 HB-Ag-positive households showed the subtype to be the same within nine, emphasizing the epidemiological rather than the pathological importance of the ;ay' and ;ad' subtypes of the HB-Ag.
(15) It puts the number of LMI households with or without children at 5.8 million, comprising 5.1 million men and 5 million women.
(16) It combined regular interviews with a study of the impact on each household of benefit changes, pension reforms, social care cuts and fuel price increases.
(17) Continuing pressure on household finances during the next 12 months will no doubt remain a constraint."
(18) Analysis of the epidemic curve and intervals of onset of multiple cases within households suggested prolonged common source exposure rather than secondary person-to-person transmission.
(19) Currently, entitlement to CTC for families with one to three children is fully exhausted when gross household earnings reach about £26,000 and £40,000 a year respectively.
(20) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
Madam
Definition:
(n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(2) I mean, he's hooked us up to see you in the flesh – it feels a bit like Madame Tussauds right now!"
(3) Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
(4) Every now and then some rich Oga or Madam comes along in their bulletproof cars and wailing sirens, and distorts the delicate equilibrium of this body of traffic.
(5) The operator of attractions such as Madame Tussauds, Sea Life Centres and London Eye, had already warned in July that lost theme park revenues would push group profit below forecasts to around the £249m posted in 2014, and the firm reiterated that expectation on Thursday.
(6) By the end of the month – barring a physical or political earthquake – Paris will have its first Madame le Maire.
(7) She was now under the control of a “madam”, a Nigerian woman who worked for the trafficking rings, controlling the women and their debt.
(8) The ubiquity of Madame Tussauds, found everywhere from Bangkok to Berlin, may reflect the globalisation of Hollywood but each city gets the waxworks it deserves.
(9) Madam Ambassador, [Libyan President Mohamed Magariaf] says this is something that has been in the planning stages for months.
(10) Kimmel provoked ire on social media when he joked about the ethnic names of some tourists who were led into the ceremony from their tour bus, apparently thinking they were entering Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.
(11) "They give up their time for nothing but the privilege and honour of having their figure done," says Liz Edwards, spokeswoman for Madame Tussauds.
(12) Madame Tussauds museum in Amsterdam, owned by Merlin Entertainments.
(13) Madam Speaker, Mr Vice-President, distinguished members of Congress, I come to this great capital of this great nation, an America renewed under a new president to say that America's faith in the future has been, is and always will be an inspiration to the whole world.
(14) The slight and dignified Madame Bong drew confidence from the correspondent who used his physical presence to inspire calm rather than threat.
(15) We are all going to die, madame,” he told me cheerily one morning, while chopping vegetables.
(16) The accompanying marketing blitzkrieg has given us postage stamps , Madame Tussauds exhibits , themed decor from Pottery Barn and fleets of new toys , including actual droids .
(17) I’m bored Some of London’s most popular attractions are also its most expensive – looking at you Madame Tussauds (from £107 for a family of four), London Zoo (£84.60), London Sealife Aquarium (£136).
(18) At Madame Tussauds, changes in popularity mean the collection is always mutating, and some dummies go the way of all wax.
(19) She pursued her madam through the courts and eventually saw her sent to jail for four years.
(20) Those who leave Nigeria are told they will need to pay back €15,000 and when they reach Italy the madam tells them their debt is €45,000,” says Princess.